Empowering Cambodians with disabilities through social protection
Findings from interviews with 12 Cambodian organisations for persons with disabilities on how to improve the social protection system.
Protecting human rights during economic crises
What can we learn from 2022's economic crises? This 2-page brief sets out countries' social security responses to those crises: what is working and what isn't to protect populations.
Upcoming webinar: Exploring economic and fiscal constraints and possibilities
On 8 February at 11am GMT, the Inclusive Social Security Policy Forum (ISSPF) in the MENA region is holding the webinar 'Inclusive social security: exploring economic and fiscal constraints and possibilities'.
The pleonasm of shock-responsive social protection
Three Christmases ago, I wrote a blog post about all the oxymorons involved in social protection! I refrained from naming names, but I provided a number of examples of commonly used phrases that were oxymoronic. An oxymoron, as a reminder, is a phrase that is inherently self-contradictory: “deafening silence”, “painfully...
A conversation with Peter Muraya
Peter Muraya is a student from Njoro, in the Rift Valley of Kenya. He was involved in a train accident when he was 13, which left him without three limbs: without two legs and a hand. The accident meant that Peter didn’t pass his exams as expected. He did however manage...
Our commitments at the Global Disability Summit 2022
To mark the 2022 Global Disability Summit today, we are making five commitments to people with disabilities.
Challenging misassumptions behind policymaking: “Being gender aware promotes gender equality”
In this edition Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology at University College London, debunks the notion that “Being gender aware promotes gender equality”.
Legislative and Policy Coherence on the Extension of Social Security Coverage in Jordan
The overall objective of this report is to identify options to strengthen legislative and policy coherence on the extension of social security in Jordan through an in-depth analysis of the national legal and policy frameworks.
Join our events this autumn
As the autumn leaves start to fall and summer winds down in the UK, our team are doing anything but winding down! Over the coming weeks, we are busy speaking...
Challenging misassumptions behind policymaking: “Cash transfers empower women”
For International Women’s Day 2022, we asked members of our team and Development Pathways collaborators to take a gender-based assumption behind decisionmaking in social policy and to challenge it. In this edition Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology at University College London, debunks the notion that “cash transfers empower women”. Cash...